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Report: One of the Biggest Obstacles to Remote Learning? Finding a Quiet Place to Work

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For Ryan Baker, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Penn Center of Learning Analytics, there is one thing in particular he’d like school leaders to keep in mind: providing better tech support for students and families. “I I definitely didn’t count on much tech support from my school district.”

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Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

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And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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As OER Grows Up, Advocates Stress More Than Just Low Cost

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Lang explains how it works: Lang: Faculty have to either adapt an OER resource, so either remixing or adding some of their own content to something that already exists, or they can author a new text. Authoring is for the folks that really want to create something because they are not finding something to meet their needs.

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Not Sure What Courseware to Try? This Tool Wants to Make Your Decision Easier

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When edtech companies approach Kara Monroe, they all tout how their product is different from everybody else’s. There’s huge amount of money coming into the edtech market for adaptive learning, personalized learning, competency-based materials, open materials. So much is coming at us,” Monroe says.

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EdSurge Live: Who Controls AI in Higher Ed, And Why It Matters (Part 1)

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More instructors are experimenting with adaptive-learning systems in their classrooms. Milliron: Higher education right now is definitely in the beginning stages of any kind of use of AI. I work in a slightly different level than the work that Civitas works on, though, with the Open Learning Initiative.

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

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of Text-Messaging at School A Big Step for Gesture-Based Learning? The degree requires the traditional 120 credit hours, but features small classes, extra supports, accommodation for different learning styles, and a modified course schedule to meet the students'' needs. Definitely worth a listen.

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DreamBox Learning® Enters ELA Market with Acquisitions of Reading Plus® and Squiggle Park

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July 19, 2021 — DreamBox Learning, the leading education technology provider that in 2006 pioneered intelligent adaptive learning, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Reading Plus, an evidence-based online reading program for grades 3-12 designed to help students boost their literacy skills and reading confidence.